Plus, autonomous 18 wheelers will not happen overnight and they will not transition immediately to zero drivers. I work with automation in manufacturing all the time. First you have the driver overseeing and intervening in some circumstances, then just overseeing, then maybe he manages 2 trucks at once, then 3. For all we know, this will simply allow more goods to be shipped by the same number of drivers. My manufacturing plant has seen that many times.

Fear of the unknown is overblown when it comes to technological progress. When cars were invented, many people insisted that the human body cannot survive at such speeds.

The internet created jobs that never existed before and the damage to people like postal workers was substantially limited by the government. Automated trucks represent a more serious threat to working class men in particular. Tech can cause significant disruption. Just look at the uber riots in France. They were more pissed off at some taxi drivers losing their jobs then they were about their women being raped by Africans

France protests in the streets and riots about anything and everything.

Speaking of out dated farm equipment. The automation of farming created a gigantic permanent underclass in the United States.

Their low IQ created a large permanent underclass

It’s a genetic separation of economic status, not technological.

Ok so what happens to the IQ 90 white truck driver?

Economics is a study of the seen and the unseen. Everyone points to the “seen” and demands to know exactly what will happen.

I don’t know exactly what will happen to the 90 IQ truck driver. That doesn’t mean we should halt technological progress.

“If we asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” - Henry Ford

“But what will happen to the buggy whip manufacturers?”

Look we've all read Bastiat. I'm not saying we should halt technological progress I'm just saying that it's likely to cause conflict.

Highly recommended book on the “seen” vs the “unseen”: <https://www.mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson>

Immigration is a problem. Not technological progress.

I think a future where no one owns cars, and your movements are tracked constantly through rideshare apps is scary, but automated vehicles would *greatly* alleviate the strains that we've seen with exploding populations in major metropolitan areas

Every one of these autonomous trucks will be running 24/7. That’s like 3x the uptime per truck of current. Someone has to load and unload all of these trucks. Someone has to make the tires that will get consumed at 3x the rate. Cheaper goods from lowered transport costs mean more money is free to go elsewhere, which will drive up jobs in those areas.

“No one will own cars” is ridiculous. Technology does not make things black and white.

People who would be better off sharing will share and people better off owning will still own.

Apartments are cheaper than houses, but not everyone lives in an apartment.

I’m not going to re-install child seats every morning in a new Uber autonomous car, nor am I going to share a child seat with strangers. I will continue to own a car. Maybe it’ll be autonomous, but I will own it. I also don’t ride the subway or a bus, even though those are cheaper. But the introduction of the subway and the bus were good for those who are better served by it.

@Tanner - SC of course it's ridiculous, I was being hyperbolic. However, car ownership will become a luxury few can afford in a future of self driving vehicles

Nonsense. You cannot say that with any lick of confidence.

Renting will become cheaper. That does not mean owning will become more expensive.

Look at the affordability if vehicles over the last 50 years. They've become a greater and greater percentage of a person's net worth, because of more and more technology

Because manipulated interest rates influencing a massive amount of lending and debt

Auto loans are in a huge bubble due to this.

One moment, I'm trying to find an article

You can spend the same % of your net worth on a vehicle today as the average person did 50 years ago and you’d have a FAR better vehicle.

Used cars last far longer too, making that market enormously bigger than it used to be.

What do you mean, used cars last longer?

Technology does not make people spend more. Jew-manipulated interest rates plus media promotion of consumerism makes people spend more.

Used cars last far longer today than ones 50 years ago.

Cars used to require major service before 50,000 miles. Now there are many cars that can run 150,000 miles with just gasoline, oil changes, tires, and brake pads.

FAR more reliable and FAR longer lasting than they used to be.

Even in my lifetime (I'm only 31), tires get far fewer flats than they used to, for example.

If this wasn't the <#322712586741088256> channel, I'd transition into urbanization too. Because that's another phenomenon and result of technological progress that brings a lot of good to the world, but jews have manipulated things so as to also bring a large amount of bad.

Absent jew influence, technological progress always brings bad with the good, but it brings far more good than bad.

I'm having a hard time saucing my claims, but I have a hard time believing that all the proprietary tech involved with self driving vehicles will make car ownership cheaper

I'm not saying it won't be a net positive, I'm saying I'm worried about some of the specifics

I should probably mention I have skin in the game. I just learned how to drive truck a couple of months ago.